Some recent astronomical work...

[Jonathan]

Hi Blackcat. Fantastic images - amongst the best I have seen in my shortish time here. Getting to grips with TG2. I would love to know how you manage to get the Starfield in the background. Did you use other software to render the volcanos / lava etc or use the (sometimes complex) facilities within TG2? Jonathan.

[Marcos Silveira]

Here is one of the images from the app...

It depicts an extrasolar ice planet (one of Beta Hydrii's planets, in case you were wondering whose sun is becoming a red giant. The increased radiation is melting the glaciers.

And as the process of red giant endures a few billions of years, we would expect life generating in this new ocean...

[blackcat]

Here is one of the images from the app...

It depicts an extrasolar ice planet (one of Beta Hydrii's planets, in case you were wondering whose sun is becoming a red giant. The increased radiation is melting the glaciers.

And as the process of red giant endures a few billions of years, we would expect life generating in this new ocean...

We can only hope!

[blackcat]

Hi Blackcat. Fantastic images - amongst the best I have seen in my shortish time here. Getting to grips with TG2. I would love to know how you manage to get the Starfield in the background. Did you use other software to render the volcanos / lava etc or use the (sometimes complex) facilities within TG2? Jonathan.

Thanks for the nice words!

The star fields are all separate artwork. I have a dozen different ones in my files, mostly based on real stars. Anything not TG2 in the images was done with Photoshop. What exactly was done and how depends entirely on the individual illustration.

Here is another example from this new series about exoplanets:

[TheBadger]

These are so good they make me angry! I really like the ones on page 1

[Splus12]

Absolutely awesome work.  Really loved the image of Beta Hydrii.

[blackcat]

Aww, gee, guys, thanks!

Here is one from a different series. It shows a scene in Peary Crater on earth's moon. The peaks of the crater rim have sometimes been called the "Mountains of Eternal Light" because they are in perpetual sunlight.